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Title: Ornithology and oy of New England: containing full descriptions of the birds of New England, and adjoining states and provinces ..
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Samuels, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1836-1908
Subjects: Birds -- New England Birds -- Eggs
Publisher: Boston, Nichols and Noyes
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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occasionally visit oldcornfields and stubble-fields, where they catch grasshoppersand other insects, and eat the seed of weeds and such grainsas are left by the farmer after harvesting. They remain in southern New England until early inNovember. QUISCALUS, ViEiLLOT. Quiscalus, ViEiLLOT, Analyse (1816). (Gray.) (Type Gracula quiscala, L.)Bill as long as the head, the culmen slightly curved, the gonys almost straight;the edges of the bill inflected and rounded; the commissure quite strongly sinuated;outlines of tarsal scutella; well defined on the sides; wings shorter than the tail,sometimes much more so; tail long, the feathers conspicuously and decidedly gradu-ated. Colors black. QUISCALUS VERSICOLOR. — Vieilbt.The Crow Blackbird; Purple Grakle. Gracula quiscala, Linnseus. Syst. Nat., I. (1766) 165. Wils. Am. Om., III.(1811)44. Quiscalus versicolor, Vieillot. Anal3se? (1816). lb., Nouv. Diet, XXVIII.(1819) 488. Nutt. Man., I. (1832) 194. Aud. Cm. Biog., I. (1831) 35; V. (1838) 481.
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Ci;<i\v Ui.ACKi.ii;!). Quisc.dhis rtisicolor. Nicillot. THE CROW BLACKBIRD. 353 Desceiption. Bill above, about as long as the head, more than twice as long as high; the com-missure moderately siuuated and considerably decurved at tip; tail a little shorterthan the wing, much graduated, the lateral feathers one and ten one-hundredthsinches shorter; third quill longest, tirst between fourth and fifth; head and neck allwell defined steel-blue; the rest of the body with vaiied reflections of bronze,golden, green, copper, and purple, the latter most conspicuous on the tail, the tailcoverts, and wings; the edges of primaries and of tail greenish. Female similar,but smaller and duller, with perhaps more green on the head. Iris, yellow. Length, three inches; wings, six; tail, five and eighty one-hundredths; billabove, one and twenty-five one-hundredths inches. This very common and well-known bird is distributedthronghout New England in the summer season; arrivingabout tlie first week in Ap

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